Gil Gerard Quotes

Ben Bova seems to work very hard at working in new discoveries into his Glum Future but alas, his future is glum and not that well written.

I like sci-fi.

Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.

We're teaming up with a major Hollywood studio, and we're making a movie called 'Copper.' It's set on Mars in the 24th century. By then we've got 27 billion people in the world, copper is the world's most valuable metal because everything runs on electricity, and there's no more burning of hydrocarbons.

I've always been a fan of science fiction.

Most fiction says you may or may not be alive tomorrow; science fiction talks often about the future.

Science fiction is not quirky anymore; we live in a futuristic world now.

I've always loved far future SF, so it was more or less a given that I would one day want to write in that form.

I'm a fan of hard science fiction, which is science fiction that is possible.

Most of my work is science fiction, with many a spaceship but few cars.

What they [critics of Lessing's switch to science fiction] didn't realize was that in science fiction is some of the best social fiction of our time.

Science fiction is where I started out, really. When I was a kid, I was a complete addict of science fiction. It was one of my earliest interests as a writer, and I've just taken a long time to circle back around to it.

Literary science fiction is a very, very narrow band of the publishing business. I love science fiction in more of a pop-culture sense. And by the way, the line between science fiction and reality has blurred a lot in my life doing deep ocean expeditions and working on actual space projects and so on. So I tend to be more fascinated by the reality of the science-fiction world in which we live.

A good science fiction story is a story with a human problem, and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its science content.

Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive.

When you grow up in science fiction you grow up in everything! It's the greatest and only field worth growing up in. It's the total field.

I don't write science fiction. I've only done one science fiction book and that's Fahrenheit 451, based on reality. Science fiction is a depiction of the real. Fantasy is a depiction of the unreal.

Science fiction is not about the freedom of imagination. It's about a free imagination pinched and howling in a vise that other people call real life.

Science-fiction ... can be defined as: Imaginative extrapolation of true natural phenomena, existing now, or likely to exist in the future.

When I was a child, science fiction was the first source I've found for information. Science fiction was a very very low cultural stream in those days. It was completly below the radar and no one bothered to censurate it.

You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history

Sci fi allowed us to be more true to the western than maybe even doing a literal western.

Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.

They were nicely written and nicely directed episodes [Star Trek: Enterprise]. I enjoyed working with Scott [Bakula]. So it was good to do, and, as you said, it did serve to enhance the Soong legacy.

I don't like sci-fi/fantasy.